fightingsioux4life

If we don't turn this program around soon, we will get left behind whether or not the B1G is doing well. Wisconsin is a prime example of what can happen to any program. And as long as hockey is third at best in the pecking order at B1G schools, I just don't see those schools pumping a lot of money into hockey. Most Michigan and Ohio State fans probably don't know their favorite schools sponsor this sport. Penn State seems to have embraced hockey, which is great, but it will never get the kind of media attention FB does there. My overall point is people shouldn't jump off bridges based on a sample size of one whole season. College hockey is, and will remain, a highly competitive sport with lots of recruitable talent and a lot of good teams vying for championships. Which is why we should focus on cleaning up our own mess and getting back to winning.

I 100% approve of this message.

Nope, no living in the past for me. Facing up to our problems is the only way to solve them. And we will.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.espn.com/womens-college-basketball/story/_/id/35727606/ncaa-sanctions-miami-women-hoop-nil-related-infraction%3fplatform=amp Maybe @Frozen4sioux can explain this away? Without calling me stupid this time.

It may not have been intelligible.

I think the COVID year format (2020-21) with all 8 teams in one place may be the long-term solution. It worked well that year and it would be one good thing to come out of that mess of a season.

Question: If the B1G is taking over forever and ever, why did it take 10 years? Realignment was announced in Summer 2011 and took effect in 2013. They could have started recruiting off the almighty B1G name in 2011. The math doesn't add up. The more likely explanation is that the law of averages finally caught up with the NCHC. The NCHC was coming off 5 NCAA titles in 6 years. That wasn't going to go on forever. The B1G was going to get better eventually and have a blockbuster season like the NCHC has had several times in the past decade. There is more recruitable talent available now than ever and the number of schools sponsoring hockey isn't likely to rise any higher than the mid to upper 60's anytime soon. So that should keep this sport highly competitive. Finally, the B1G Sky Is Falling narrative doesn't explain the successes of small schools like Quinnipiac and Denver. UND boosters should take NIL and the emergence of the B1G seriously (I certainly do), but UND will not end up like Canisius or RIT where the main goal will be to make the tournament and maybe win a game if we are lucky. We cannot afford to let it happen. It would doom UND athletics forever. And we must do whatever we can to prevent it from happening.

The Supreme Court said they cannot prohibit NIL. That doesn't mean they cannot regulate it. I saw a story a few weeks back on my ESPN app on a school that was sanctioned for being involved in NIL. So it can be regulated.

One great season does not equal a trend. The NCHC winning 5 out of the last 6 NCAA titles IS a trend. Cripes, take a pill and lie down. This season was a disaster, but it is not the end of the road for us.

Really? It is a FACT that hockey at B1G schools is not held with anything close to the regard that MBB and FB are. Sometimes I think even WBB may rank higher than hockey if their women's team is doing really well. There is not a thing I posted that was off-the-wall or out of bounds. Our program will NOT fade into the past and be relegated to mid-major status. Neither will the NCHC.

Those schools are not "blue bloods". Duke, North Carolina, UCLA..........those are blue bloods. And none of them are playing right now. Also, the barstool sports article you posted earlier said NIL would help the smaller schools compete. So which is it? Does it favor the big guys or the little guys? NIL is very early in its life cycle. A lot of things could happen with it. UND boosters can and should get a collective started and I would chip in something, but let's not proclaim UND's time as a hockey power over.

Upsets have been part of the MBB tournament for years. And they have become more common in recent years.........before NIL was a thing at all. NIL is a convenient scapegoat and boogeyman for everything that happens in collegiate athletics. And a cheap and easy story idea for journalists who don't have ideas of their own and have a deadline to meet.

This is the perfect meme for the apologists on here.

So all that "State of Hockey" rhetoric is just cleaver marketing by the Wild?

All this NIL talk is pure conjecture. FB and MBB will probably land the lion's share of deals since those sports have a much higher profile than hockey. Also, except for the Goofs, hockey ranks #3 at best (sometimes lower) at B1G schools. The NCHC wasn't going to be #1 every year forever (that is just not realistic), but some people on this forum already have us being relegated to mid-major status from now on. I think that is alarmist. NIL is something UND boosters should take seriously, but it isn't the end all and be all some people think it is. The NCAA will likely introduce rules and regulations on NIL in the future, which will change things again. Let's focus on rebooting our program and less on things we cannot control.

The last #1 seed just went down.

That is why I am choosing not to watch this year. I can hardly wait until October so we can turn our program around and get back to winning.

I wouldn't want to risk NCAA sanctions, so I think we better do this 100% above board.

I like this idea, but UND cannot be involved in it (NCAA rule).

Are you referring to where the visiting team's bus drives inside? I think @Frozen4sioux was talking about parking for fans going to the games.

The NCAA requires us to sponsor X number of sports as a Division I institution. The Summit League has requirements as well. And we need to stop looking at this as a pure zero-sum game. There is vast untapped fundraising potential that we are simply not tapping. And as for getting blue chippers, having local businesses start up NIL programs would help. The "heated underground parking" would benefit us fans more than anyone else.

He is in prison now? When we won it all in 2016, he went on an online tirade about how we don't deserve it and how awful we are as fans.

It's probably ROOT Beer, but that is fine by me.

Pointing out weaknesses and shortcomings in your own team and/or institution does not mean you "aren't really a UND fan". It means you don't like where your team and/or institution is and want them to do better. A lot of the shameless apologists on this forum don't understand that and probably never will.

He's going from Defensive Coordinator to Defensive Backs coach. That isn't a downgrade?